Rovers Handed Potential Whitehawk Away FA Cup Tie

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I've spotted your ''deliberate mistake''-Bristol Rovers and first round not third

If we get through tomorrow (which I'm not convinced we will), I'll be looking forward to this one immensely!

Should be a great day out!

I wonder if the game maybe moved to the sunday as brighton are at home in the league on the saturday

Should be a decent game and Tranmere would definitely have the advantage, but first the thorny issue of Lincoln.

Then I ate his Liver.......... with some baked beans and a can of coke.

Definitely up to going to this if get through.

Apparently another ream being bankrolled with the likes of Sergio Torres & ex rovers loanee Arnaud Mendy playing for them

Was it Whitehawk who lost to Boreham Wood in the Southern Play Off last season?

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Was it Whitehawk who lost to Boreham Wood in the Southern Play Off last season?

Yeah it was I think!

I was at the Gosport v Whitehawk 3rd Qualifying Round replay. I can't really remember anything outstanding about them to be honest.

Sergio Torres was a busy little midfielder, not afraid to put himself about, he had a good touch and an eye for a pass.

They've got some height in the squad and were quite a physical team, not necessarily within the rules of the game either.

The game was marred by some bad refereeing decisions and saw 3 red cards; the undeserving first was Gosport's Dan Wooden following some 'gamesmanship' by The Hawks' Danny Stevens, who came across as a bit of a troublemaker. Whitehawks' Nick Arnold was deservedly sent off after hauling Boro' striker Justin Bennett down when clean through on goal and Bennett also saw red following two yellow cards for two silly but blatant trips of a opposition player.

Unfortunately there was also an issue of the travelling fans allegedly racially abusing the Gosport goalkeeper, Nathan Ashmore, which was dealt with by the stewards.

If we do get by Lincoln, I didn't see anything in Whitehawk that would cause us any real problems. Norwood would run their defence ragged, GTF and McNulty can both handle the physical side of Whitehawk's game. Torres and Harris would be an interesting battle in midfield though. Although it is the FA Cup and as we all know, anything goes. Might try and get to that game myself if it happens.



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The game was marred by some bad refereeing decisions

From a non-league ref??!

Never!

I think there capacity is 2000. How many tickets might we get?

Not many...so I'll sit on the hill for free

should be a good view from there paz, don't forget the binoculars and picnic basket. be like a day at the cricket, lol.



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I was reading their fans comments and they seem to be made up and think they are going to beat us.

Every ball is a white ball............TRFC

Oh to dream about a day in Whitehawk! maybe next year.....

Oh well they can beat Lincoln instead. Bet they would have preferred to have played us.

Saved the supporters a long,expensive day out.Now to concentrate on League and FA Trophy

We will play them next if they get promoted so you can have your day out

Poor result and could be costly again this weekend having 10 men mainly all game and a massive game this Saturday against Dover, would have happily seen the kids get a game tonight and just concentrate on the league !!

Because it wasn't a glamorous 1st round tie, the management decided not to bother. Resting Mekki and GTF, Davies deciding that margetts was looking tired so making brabin to take him off. Fair play really, concentrate on the FA vase.

Mekki's Twitter last Saturday:-

''Gutted to come off today. Felt something in my hamstring. Hopefully not too serious''








How do you 'rest' somebody who's done his hamstring?



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Blimey that post went right over your head didn't it.......

If you insist.

I like the fact that you picked up on the Mekki injury, but not the Taylor-fletcher one. Didn't consider that Davies got sent off on purpose, because margetts was tired after 15 mins. And even considered their could be a glamorous tie in round one. It was sarcasm, I apologise if it wasn't to your taste.

mini andy its the FA Trophy we are in not the FA Vase

Lincoln fans moaning now that it may well be on a Sunday their game at Whitehawk!

Strange bunch aren't they?!

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mini andy its the FA Trophy we are in not the FA Vase

I'll be honest, I didn't know they were different. A bit like the conference and national league

Bullet dodged i think, we would probably have made a loss on the game potentially picked up injuries and maybe switched off and gotten beat

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I like the fact that you picked up on the Mekki injury, but not the Taylor-fletcher one. Didn't consider that Davies got sent off on purpose, because margetts was tired after 15 mins. And even considered their could be a glamorous tie in round one. It was sarcasm, I apologise if it wasn't to your taste.

Actually I haven't picked up on much the last few days as I've spent much of my time at Arrowe Park hospital and travelling to and from there-critically ill mother in law.

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mini andy its the FA Trophy we are in not the FA Vase

God we we're once in fact three times in the quarter finals of the FA Cup and now it's the FA Trophy or Vase that's getting talked about on here how low we have fallen.

didcot town, salford city, brackley, st albans, fc united, whitehawk, staines, afc fylde, stourbridge, Chesham utd, gainsborough trinity and no tranmere rovers in fa cup 1st round. lets make sure this never happens again. onwards and upwards and back into that football league.

Hong Kong Rover; number one super guy.

Hong Kong Rover; quicker than the human eye.

Hong Kong Rover; always first in line for pies.

I agree though; the only sure fire way to avoid not being in the FA cup proper is to get promoted.

Incidentally have you ever contacted the club, about the possibility of some money spinning friendlies with visiting HK teams?

Then I ate his Liver.......... with some baked beans and a can of coke.

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Hong Kong Rover; number one super guy.
Hong Kong Rover; quicker than the human eye.

Hong Kong Rover; always first in line for pies.

I agree though; the only sure fire way to avoid not being in the FA cup proper is to get promoted.

Incidentally have you ever contacted the club, about the possibility of some money spinning friendlies with visiting HK teams?

lol, i wouldnt bother with hk football matt. the standard here is atrocious and it worsens every year. hk's footballing heyday was in the 70s but ever since then the quality has deteriorated. i used to watch quite a lot of games here at the hk stadium and mong kok stadium and other smaller venues around the city but i dont bother anymore. the last game i went to was an asian cup qualifier involving the biggest local team , south china and that was about 4 years ago. it doesnt cost much to watch a local game about 7 quid. even the hk national team is pretty dire. they recently scraped a 1~0 away win against, wait for it, BHUTAN in a world cup qualifier, wow! lol. ive seen ian muir play out here about 20 years ago when he had a spell with a team called sing tao. actually met and spoke to him a couple of times. shaun teale was another ex rovers player that played over here but he didnt last long. every may at the end of the european domestic season we have the hk soccer 7s which is a 3 day tournament staged at the happy valley football club. a lot of the big english and the 2 glasgow giants send over their youth players to compete in the tournament. ive actually seen some of these youth players actually progress to the english premier league. the tournament also has other european and asian youth sides plus a number of other smaller teams. would love a tranmere under 16/ youth team to come over.



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maybe it was best that we didn't have to go down to whitehawk, they've just beaten Lincoln 5-3. just watched the aldershot v Bradford match, pretty dire game.

Delighted with that - Lincoln proving what a dire and anti-footballing side they are!

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Delighted with that - Lincoln proving what a dire and anti-footballing side they are!

They were nothing like as anti footballing as Eastleigh.

I hope that Brabin and our coaches were watching and taking note of how Whitehawk played and as a result go at Lincoln from the start.